Sarah Wendt born in Charlottetown, PEI, is aTiohtiá:ke/Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist. Her work often involves choreography, performance, musical scores/conducting, installation/sculpture, and is developed as a kinaesthetic response to the contingencies of collaboration.
She studied
contemporary dance at MainDance in Vancouver and French horn at the
University of Victoria. She was a DanceWEB Europe Scholarship recipient
in 2007, and the 2014 APAF Artist in Residence in Nova Scotia. Recently,
she was a faculty member at the Holland College School of Performing
Arts, Charlottetown, where she taught improvisation in voice and
movement, contemporary dance and creative process. Her performance work has been
shown in contexts such as: Galerie de l'UQAM; Galerie Hugues Charbonneau; l'OEil de Poisson,
Quebec City; Art in the Open, Charlottetown; Encuentro Hemispheric
Institute for Performance and Politics; Anode Festival, Melbourne; OK
Quoi!? Contemporary Arts Festival, Sackville (N.B.), and OFFTA festival d’arts vivants. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the P.E.I. Arts Council, and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
